Camille Grand, NATO assistant secretary general for defense investment, discusses accelerating alliance acquisition programs and more with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian at NATO Allied Command Transformation’s 13th annual Chiefs of Transformation Conference in Norfolk, Va. Our coverage was sponsored by L3 Technologies and Leonardo DRS.
Palmer Luckey, the founder of Anduril Industries who also founded Oculus Rift VR — which he sold to Facebook — discusses his new company, defense innovation, the Defense Innovation Unit and more with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian at the Reagan National Defense Forum at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley, Calif. Our coverage was sponsored by L3 Technologies and Leonardo DRS.
Pat Anderson, author of the new book “Nautilus Trilogy,” discusses her new book and the significance of the USS Nautilus, the world’s first nuclear powered warship with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian at the Naval Submarine League’s annual symposium in Northern Virginia. She was married to the late Capt. William Anderson, USN Ret., who served as Nautilus’ second commanding officer. Nautilus is now a museum ship at the US Submarine Force Library & Museum on the Thames River in Groton, Conn.
Vice Adm. Mike Connor, USN Ret., former US Submarine Force commander who is founder, president and CEO of ThayerMahan Inc. — an innovative maritime security company — discusses maintaining undersea superiority and the growth strategy with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian at the annual Naval Submarine League Symposium in Northern Virginia;.
Bob Work, former US deputy defense secretary, and Richard Danzig, former Navy secretary — both fellows with Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory — discuss a new report, “A Preface to Strategy: The Foundations of American National Security” with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian. The report can be found at https://jhuapl.edu/Content/documents/PrefaceToStrategy.pdf.
Raimundas Karoblis, Lithuania’s defense minister, discusses NATO’s Trident Juncture 2018 exercise, Russia and more with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian at the Reagan National Defense Forum at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley, Calif. Our coverage was sponsored by L3 Technologies and Leonardo DRS.
Carlos Romero, the associate vice president for research at New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, discusses Russian disinformation operations during NATO’s recent Trident Juncture 2018 exercise with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian. The interview was conducted on the sidelines of NATO Allied Command Transformation’s 13th annual Chiefs of Transformation Conference in Norfolk, Va., where our coverage was sponsored by L3 Technologies and Leonardo DRS.
Remy Nathan, the vice president for international affairs at the Aerospace Industries Association, discusses the Trump administration’s new Conventional Arms Transfer Policy with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian at the association’s Northern Virginia office.
Paul Scharre and Richard Fontaine of the Center for a New American Security discuss Sen. Mark Warner’s, D-Va., call for a national cyber strategy with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian at the think tank’s headquarters in Washington, D.C. The interview followed an address by Warner calling for a national cyber strategy — https://www.warner.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/blog?id=34CAC7A3-7E87-405D-A38B-D73156C8C907.
Cmdr. George Wallace, USN Ret., author of the best-selling novel “Firing Point” that is now the major motion picture “Hunter Killer” starring Gerard Butler, discusses his work, making a realistic movie about submarine operations with Hollywood star Butler and more with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian at the Naval Submarine League’s annual symposium. Wallace — who spent a career in submarines culminating in command of USS Houston during which the ship earned a CIA Meritorious Unit Citation — has written or co-written other submarine-themed books including “Final Bearing,” “Operation Golden Dawn,” and “Dangerous Grounds.”